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Dr Chang Jun Yan
Assistant Professor
Head of Military Studies Programme
Education
BSSc Hons (NUS); MSc (RSIS, NTU); PhD (University of Queensland) Areas of Expertise
- International Relations Theory
- International Security
- Critical Security Studies
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Dr James Char
Assistant Professor
Education
BA (NTU); MA (NTU); PhD (University of Cambridge) Areas of Expertise
- Chinese Domestic Politics
- Civil-Military Relations in China
- China’s Military Modernisation
- The Chinese Civil War
- China’s Diplomatic Strategies in the Global South
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Dr Alvin Chew
Senior Fellow
Education
BEng (NTU); PhD (Imperial); MSc (RSIS, NTU); ACE (MIT Sloan) Areas of Expertise
- Nuclear Governance and Architecture
- Nuclear Energy Developments and Reactor Technology
- Nuclear Security and Non-Proliferation
- Nuclear Emergency Response and Crisis Communications
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Dr Alan Chong
Senior Fellow
Education
BA; BSSc Hons (NUS); MSc; PhD (LSE) Areas of Expertise
- International Relations Theorizing of Southeast Asia
- Foreign Policy, Political Economy and Political Thought of Singapore
- Post-1945 Southeast Asian Political Thought
- Soft Power and International Communication
- Cybersecurity in Asia
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Dr Alistair D. B. Cook
Senior Fellow
Coordinator of Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Programme
Education
MA Hons (University of St Andrews); MA (Purdue); PhD (Melbourne) Areas of Expertise
- Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response
- Peace and Conflict
- Asia Pacific Regionalism
- Foreign Policy and Internal Conflicts in the Asia Pacific
- Myanmar
- Cambodia
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Mr Barry Desker
Distinguished Fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)
Nanyang Professor of Practice, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Education
BA Hons (University of Singapore); MA (London); D. Litt (Warwick); LLD (Exeter) Areas of Expertise
- WTO
- Terrorism and civil conflict in Asia
- Regional economic and security issues
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Dr Xue Gong
Assistant Professor
Coordinator of China Programme, IDSS
Education
BPhil (NNU); MSc (RSIS, NTU); PhD (RSIS, NTU) Areas of Expertise
- China’s Economic Diplomacy
- Chinese Overseas Investments
- State-Firms Relations
- China-ASEAN Relations
- China’s CSR Activities
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Dr Rohan Gunaratna
Professor of Security Studies
Education
MA (University of Notre Dame); PhD (University of St Andrews) Areas of Expertise
- Islamic State and Al-Qaeda
- Counter-terrorism Intelligence
- Counter-terrorism Operations
- Countering the Financing of Terrorism
- Strategic Prevention
- Online Radicalization
- Rehabilitation and Reintegration
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Dr Gulizar Haciyakupoglu
Senior Associate Fellow
Education
BS (SUNY, Binghamton); BA (Boğaziçi University), MA (University of Sheffield, UK); PhD (NUS) Areas of Expertise
- Disinformation Campaigns and Influence Operations
- Trust in Cyberspace
- Internet, Communication and Authority
- Gender Equality Advocacy in Cyberspace
- Online Activism
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Dr Mahfuh Bin Haji Halimi
Research Fellow
Education
BA Hons (UKM, Malaysia); MSc; PhD (RSIS, NTU) Areas of Expertise
- Islamism and Security Issues in Southeast Asia
- Political Violence and Terrorism in the Middle East
- Jihadist Rehabilitation & Revision
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